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Elevador Social | Douglas Silva | TEDxRuaHalfeld


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Did you know that Brazil is the second
country with the largest number of inhabitants
black world said in the world
the first is nigeria, it is not there
Furthermore there is in Africa
penna of 2017 is a survey by the
ibge is he indicated that 54 percent per
percent of the Brazilian population
recognizes as black or is the guard and
black
I’m glad to see this is because every
This again indicates that more and more
Well people know if valuing comes
defending his blackness and I stay
happy to see that the pejorative vision that
lots of money and even said changing
I’m also glad to see black
in fact this pejorative vision is not me
When I was a kid, I remember that
As a child, I did not want to wear black.
power
I thought it was ugly I had no reference
there was not going to use only wanted to use
shaved
today I even speak to my daughter son
Do not want to have your hair curled from here.
power to perform 13 years not to get
very beautiful and she thought how beautiful she is and
nowadays she likes it i think it’s beautiful that
happy to see black people from places I
I did not see before, I was doing things that they
they did not do things that did not
had before
know and see these changes this
situation only makes me believe that the
community and society is changing and
changing for the better
Of course I know that you know how to be.
optimist will not ignore the fact that
reality that this change
It is still very recent that this change
is too slow because it should be
I do not attribute this to the fact that we
one point society
we come not fighting the focus pa
key issue is racism the
racism and its effects not only wanted
of favela she was born in favela da
kelson’s in rio de janeiro in the north
from Rio de Janeiro
my mother had six children one died
Do not call me clear of the silva she created.
alone the one with five children, right?
the unconventional family at least
for those who do not live in the favela and
things that happened to me
huh
for being black so it’s favelado had
one that marked me
I was inside a bus in Copacabana.
the steps coming from work was not
meet the friend was sitting
bus was rush hour
the bus stopped in several places and a
point of being that the bus stopped
you can repair by the lights that two
Police vehicles were on the side of the
bus did not catch I looked at the side vi
that he was looking at the sky was
I looked and I talked to him too.
everything is normal and when the bus was
exit the bus stop right one via
the two cars turned on the siren
one went to the front of the bus and the
another went to the back of the bus
He already gave me that he beats selling.
nervousness and there were four
police got into the bus in the
front and two stood in the back
I was watching them four
police came towards me I
I was nervous code was 14 years old in
time playing 14 15 years and 11 thousand for
I searched my purse and grabbed my purse.
he asked to lift the shirt I
I picked up my shirt
and he started to ask where I said
around the house and going where
find a friend and it was enough
embarrassing for me that’s what
cops were leaving
I’m a voice of a lady, right?
Screaming because you’re just frisking
it does not come here I was searched
my purse
he came to you I saw that she was a
white room and I was even scared
When I went again, nothing will go left.
for me but the policeman took it and looked
back looked at him did nothing and
they just left and I left.
I stayed there with trembling with that
situation that felt the whole
She came to me and asked if she was okay.
how I was as I was
feeling and apologize and said that
was well accompanied
and then I could see that the shame
it was not because the police officers
registered by the whole of the
by the absence in the empathy of the
other passengers who were on the bus
by the obvious racism I had
spent at that time by society
sees that it happens every day
daily and puts it there because
consider this as normal
put this on a shelf that is
Natural
I remember that after that
keep thinking about it a lot I said
Wow, just because I’m black, I’m
thug and what with hammering in my
Head right?
You know that every 23 minutes
the black negro is dead
I knew that he knew what the stigma
Guys like me carry the fact
to be violated
is the fact that he dies the pnad
he recently announced that young people
between 15 and 19 years old have three times more
chance of having a violent death than
a young white man
You are alarming we have to
stop thinking about it everybody’s
You know that I started acting the young self.
I started doing theater, I’ll figure it out
to do a theater eight years I started
then I did a short film called
palace 2 that passed on the globe after
movie city of god that is a movie that
I did not travel the world that is a
Reference is pro Brazilian cinema in
outer became indicated Prológica
then I made the city of the men efe mas
there was five years in the globe after I
I did the movie city ​​zone series in your
was nominated for Emmy as Best
actor by united states brazil and states
united states to compete as
best actor is not
and then I see this situation of the situation
Changed from here to here, my life changed.
I welcome this opportunity following my
career I have achieved this social
I managed to change my condition
I did not see that
situation that had passed some years
behind
inside that bus was no longer so
frequent like this in my life happen
less and less with me but because it is
because I was the first guy frost me
I became a privileged face
today we still call
Your’m married have a wife has a
6 year old daughter and dirt also when
Come on and come to the mall, I said.
I was coordinating the robot .
sweatshirt and slippers tee and went it
goes like this was to pose the problem of
Then people were going through
places is that most of the
books can not attend the majority of
of my cousins ​​even those who live in
favela unit can not attend
so I kept asking myself, man
So for me to be respected by the
society for the poor a black being
respected by society, he needs
Be rich
he needs to have hammering in the head
It does not have to be that way, and I do when I look
back and I see that I left the favela
I saw that little boy who knows not
had perspective of life is the had
to have another and have a
profession because our precarious teaching
I do not remember that the first profession
that they indicated to me was meant to be
military
It was my dream to make a dream come true.
I wanted to want what was the
only chance I had because
at 18 I have to keep stable
You have to represent a trace the first
what do we think we have
children and in other states but there on the river
of January
already to my generation of friends this era
the profession because there we saw a
opportunity to ascend socially
of this rise and even that stability
at least one year
I pick up and see what young people these days
young people in the time that has not
this same opportunity as he does not have
this social ascension that I had as it is
that they will be able to get this
social elevator and when you talk elevator
social, I do not speak, I speak both
sense in the literal sense towards
is figured we see many reports of
violence
you discriminate is other people
ask to prevent that they use the
the social elevator and put it to
use the general service lift people
who go through it only that it is black and
poor people this is a crime
can not this happen then when
I speak look back and also speak of
social counselor in the figurative sense
I see that many I can give
examples because I know several friends
I have several friends
I attended the favela community in the
alive and many still have no perspective
of life they do not see as compensation
social comes how to get this elevator
It is known social lift that because they
have many and overcome of life
Is the lack of money to be able?
going pro for work since the lack of
money to go to the interview for
To be able to change life is from the shooting
which prevents what he is going to study, right?
it is the lack of quality education
This is an obstacle to this or that
this all interrupts
in this section social ascension is funny
huh
I see that nowadays I’m famous
people can walk in various
Old places not to be discriminated against
So you need to be famous, not to be
treated as a person if I were not
famous
Suddenly it is if I did not go from Brazil.
even if you were walking like this it would be
conference like this, I think the
people would not look at me, we’re
looking at the artist now he can then
You know this has a weight and when I think
who were already having this opportunity
The woman from a case that happened has 12
two weeks ago the young black boy
Direct 14 years old he came to
me to request an autograph and a photo of me
I picked up and I spoke with him in the condo.
my mother-in-law and then he came
question that left you upset, right?
asked what it’s like to be famous
How do you explain this is normal today in
Day, it’s funny, it’s anonymity that
the edict
I was thinking why are you?
asking this , I was going to talk because
I want to be famous that I want to win.
money is
What do you think to do in your life?
You’re winning this day for yourself.
to become famous is I do not know that I just want
being famous wants to make money and I
I stayed here in the thought that is
for him both did what he did
to do that would be to bring a
joy a personal satisfaction that the
people are looking for this satisfaction
our work because we get up
all
Giba work, we think about it then.
it let me know it did not come down
I kept looking and I could not play
it likely that he saw that
it was the only way he had that the
cross society to respect it happens to
respect the way he is
Guy, he walks right, I think.
For us, we must combat this ratio.
social inequality we can not be
to let racism work out
alone because this idea already has more
500 years and not working people
and I think the first step is people
society to accept racism and see that
our society
sunk over financiers and
Step two, we get this racism.
pick it up as a reference for us
see what we do not want to become and
take it to fight against relationships that
people do not want to have it in the future is the phallus
this because I think of my daughter right and
racist racism it not the person does not
is born racist
She is taught there is a child at home.
How do I have your child who are
near you are sure to be
Watching what you’re talking about
You have to pay close attention to yourself.
father you teacher you talk about him room
class that the child absorbs has to
pay close attention to the things that
they are watching it on the internet
on the internet we have access to all
whether on the internet or on television
movies and even on the playground .
various relationships alisson several people
have to pay attention you have to pay
mind at all
I can speak with propriety I am
black I’ve been through that we do not
to combat racism
thus honestly equal to
equal facing Brazil never
never will it reach the potential that
he has because inequality and people
between blacks and whites is very
big is too big and I say that this
fight has to be everyone has to fight alone
It has to be black or white to who has
money has no money for the
famous for who is not famous is because
I do not think it’s fair, I have to dress
from white to society when I can not
to respect
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